Mississippi Board of Education
March 15, 2007
10:00 A.M.
4th Floor Boardroom
Central High School Building
359 North West Street
Jackson, Mississippi
Agenda
01. Report of State Superintendent of Education Backup Material
02. Report on Jefferson
Davis County
School District (Steve
Williams) Backup Material
03. Legislative Update (Steve Williams) Backup Material
04. Discussion of contract
modification with Capital Security Services, Inc. for the provision of
security services on the campus of the Mississippi Schools for the Blind and
the Deaf (Daphne Buckley) Backup Material
05. [PULLED]
06. Discussion
of contract modification with Day, Certified Public Accountant to serve as the
financial advisor for the Jefferson
Davis County
School District (Steve Williams) Backup Material
07. Discussion of
the establishment of the State Dropout Prevention Plan, 2007-2019 (Has cleared
the Administrative Procedures Act process with public comments) (Sheril Smith) Backup Material
08. Discussion of
contract with Brenda J. Hankins/Applied Training Corporation to develop the Recertification
Course for School Foodservice Program Managers and Administrators, provide
training for School Food Service Administrators, and conduct Train the Trainer
Course (Regina Ginn) Backup Material
09. Discussion of
Appointment of School Finance Officer for the Office of Federal Financial
Management (Ethel Cain Carson) Backup Material
10. Discussion of Appointment of Bureau
Director II for the Office of Accreditation (Ethel Cain Carson) Backup Material
12. Discussion of the
methodology for selecting the Pilot Sites for Redesigning Education for the 21st
Century Workforce in Mississippi (James Sardin) Backup Material
13. Discussion of approval to award grants
for Even Start Family Literacy Programs (Kris Kaase) Backup Material
14. Discussion
of contract modification of Reading First Monitors (Kris Kaase) Backup Material
15. Discussion of the Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines for Four Year Old
Children (Has cleared the Administrative
Procedures Act process with public comments) (Kris Kaase)
16. Discussion
of contract with University
of Southern Mississippi
for the development of the Mississippi Department of Education Leadership Model
and Train-the-Trainer session(s) (Gwenda Purnell) Backup Material
17. Discussion of contract modification with Aventa Learning to
increase the number of students for courses through summer school 2007 for the Mississippi Virtual Public School
(Gwenda Purnell) Backup Material
01. Continue in effect Board’s Declaration of State of Emergency
based on the finds as a result of Hurricane Katrina (Steve Williams) Backup Material
02. New
school site for the Jones
County School
District (Regina Ginn) Backup Material
03. Two (2) new school sites for the Harrison County School District (Regina Ginn) Backup Material
04. Revisions
to the Mississippi Secondary and Postsecondary Curriculum Frameworks (Has
cleared the Administrative Procedures Act process with no public comments)
(James Sardin) Backup Material
05. Contract
modification with Gulf Coast Education Initiative to continue to monitor and
provide technical assistance to all nonpublic and private schools awarded
Immediate Aid to Restart School Operations funds (Sonya Amis) Backup Material
06. Contract
modification for Billy R. Watson to continue to assist in administering the
Hurricane Katrina Restart grants and School Emergency Response to Violence
(Project SERV) for the Mississippi Department of Education (Sonya Amis) Backup Material
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